Crusius | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:50:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Crusius | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Mexican families of El Paso shooting victims sue Walmart https://www.insideojodu.com/mexican-families-of-el-paso-shooting-victims-sue-walmart/ https://www.insideojodu.com/mexican-families-of-el-paso-shooting-victims-sue-walmart/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:50:25 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=8863 Walmart re-opened its El Paso, TX store nearly three months after a gunman killed…

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Walmart re-opened its El Paso, TX store nearly three months after a gunman killed 22 people and injured dozens more in August.

Mexican citizens whose relatives were victims in the Aug. 3 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, have filed a lawsuit against the store chain.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said Wednesday it is assisting the 10 Mexican plaintiffs in the suit, filed in El Paso.

The lawsuit, presented in El Paso County Wednesday, is intended to hold Walmart “responsible for not taking reasonable and necessary measures to protect its customers from the attack at the Cielo Vista branch in El Paso, Texas,” according to the department’s website.

It did not say what damages the lawsuit seeks, nor how many of the plaintiffs were wounded victims, or relatives of those killed.

Eight Mexicans were among the 22 people killed in the shooting; eight other Mexicans were wounded. Police have said Patrick Crusius of Dallas confessed to the shooting and that he targeted Mexicans.

The El Paso Walmart reopened its doors last week, nearly three months after the massacre.

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El Paso shooting fatalities now at 22 after victim dies at hospital https://www.insideojodu.com/el-paso-shooting-fatalities-now-at-22-after-victim-dies-at-hospital/ https://www.insideojodu.com/el-paso-shooting-fatalities-now-at-22-after-victim-dies-at-hospital/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:05:00 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6445 Two victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso have also lost their lives…

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Two victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso have also lost their lives after theu died on Monday morning, raising the number of fatalities in the massacre to 22, officials said.

The mass shooting — one of the worst in modern United States’ history — unfolded at a Walmart around 11 a.m. Saturday, as 21-year-old suspect Patrick Crusius, allegedly opened fire in the store, initially killing at least 20 and injuring another 26.

Police and hospital officials announced that two additional people who were wounded in the attack died Monday.

The Walmart was almost full at the time of the shooting, with hundreds of shoppers inside along with 100 employees during the busy back-to-school shopping season.

Crusius was booked on capital murder charges. Authorities said on Sunday that the crimes he’s accused of are being investigated as domestic terrorism. Officials were also looking into whether hate crime charges against Crusius are appropriate.

El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza said his office will seek the death penalty against the suspect.

“The loss of life is so great, we certainly have never seen this in our community. We are a very safe community,” he told reporters at a news conference on Sunday. “We pride ourselves on the fact that we’re so safe, and certainly this community is rocked, shocked and saddened by what has happened here yesterday.”

Also, a few hours later, a gunman wearing a mask, bulletproof vest, earplugs and carrying a rifle capable of holding at least 100 rounds also opened fire, outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio. At least nine people were killed and 27 others were wounded.

Some victims of the El Paso mass shooting have been identified. Among those killed was a 60-year-old man at the self-checkout line while his wife was in the bathroom, a 15-year-old who was weeks away from starting 10th grade and six Mexican citizens. A mother-of-three, who was shielding her 2-year-old son from gunfire, was fatally shot — her husband was, too.

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